To set up Hotmail or Windows Live Mail* on your smartphone, use Pocket MSN. Pocket MSN provides access right from your Home screen to all your favorite MSN services, including MSN Hotmail, MSN Messenger, and MSN Mobile Web content. Most new smartphones come with Pocket MSN installed. If you don’t see Pocket MSN on your phone, you can purchase it from MSN.**

To set up Pocket MSN:

• Press Start and scroll to PocketMSN > MSN Hotmail.
• Enter your Hotmail address and password.
• If you want your smartphone to save your password, so you won’t have to enter it every time you want to check your mail, select Save password, which will put a checkmark in the checkbox.
• Press Sign In.

To view your latest messages on your smartphone, select Menu > Send/Receive.

Note: If you don’t have PocketMSN, don’t subscribe to an unlimited data plan, or only need occasional access to this account, you may prefer to access your Hotmail or Windows Live e-mail from your smartphone using Internet Explorer. To access your account through Internet Explorer, go to http://mobile.msn.com. *Windows Live Mail is the next version of Hotmail, and is currently in beta form. Windows Live Mail provides fast and simple e-mail that makes it even easier than before to read, send, and organize your messages.

**Available at time of publication.

ENTERING TEXT AND NUMBERS WITH A 12-KEY KEYPAD

Smartphones with 12-key keypads provide multiple ways or “modes” for entering text and numbers.
When you select a field that requires just text or just numbers, the phone automatically selects the appropriate input mode, so there is no need to take any action. If you are entering free-form text—or you’re in a field that requires a combination of numbers and letters, you must first select an input mode.

To select an input mode:

Using the Various Entry Modes

• Multipress (for text only). Your 12-key keypad, like a standard phone, has numbers 0 through 9, plus the * and # keys. Each number key also represents three or four letters. In multipress mode, enter a letter by repeatedly pressing the key that contains the letter you want until that letter appears. (For example, to enter the letter “c,” press the “abc” key three times quickly.)

  When in Multipress mode, the mode indicator will show either abc, Abc, or ABC indicating lowercase, initial capital letter, or uppercase. Tip. In Multipress mode, the first letter of a sentence is automatically capitalized.

• T9 Predictive Typing (for text only): T9 typing predicts the word that you are typing based on the letters that you enter. This mode eliminates the need to press keys repeatedly. Just press the key corresponding to each letter you want once, and Windows Mobile will analyze your key presses and attempt to complete the word. For example, if you press 7, 4, 6, 3, Windows Mobile will enter the word “shoe” as well as provide alternative words. Just select the word you want. If you don’t see the word you want in the T9 dictionary, click Add Word? from the list, and enter the word using Multipress.

  To enter a space after a word, press the # key. Note: Windows Mobile will automatically add a space after a word when you select it from the T9 dictionary.

  When in T9 mode, the mode indicator will show either t9, T9 or T9 indicating all lowercase, initial capital letter, or all uppercase. Tip. In T9 mode, the first letter of a sentence is automatically capitalized.

• Numeric (for numbers only): This mode is used only for entering numbers. In numeric mode, pressing a key will enter only the number on that key—not any of the letters.

  If you need to enter a number within a line of text, change to Numeric mode to enter the number, and then change back to Multipress or T9 mode to finish entering the text.

  When in Numeric mode, the mode indicator will show 123.

• Enter a space Press the # key.
• Enter punctuation. In Multipress mode, press 1 repeatedly until you see the punctuation mark that you want. Tip: To see all of the available symbols, press and hold the # key. In T9 mode, press 1, and select from a list of common punctuation.
• Enter a symbol Press and hold the * key. On the menu, click Symbols to display the Symbol page. Select the symbol you want and click Done.
• Delete characters. To backspace and delete a single character, press the Back Arrow key. To backspace and delete an entire text or numeric field, press and hold the Back Arrow key.

An easy first step to get you started learning about your smartphone is to set the time and date.

• Press Start, scroll to Settings, and press the Center Joystick.
• Scroll to Clock & Alarm and press the Center Joystick.
• Press the Center Joystick to select Date and Time.
• Scroll to Time zone and press the Center Joystick.
• Scroll to the time zone you want and press the Center Joystick.
• Scroll to Date and enter today’s date. Use the left and right joystick controls to move between the month, date, and year, and press the function key in each case to enter the number you want. (The function key has a half moon or dot on it.)
• Scroll to Time and enter the current time. Again, use the left and right joystick controls to move between hour, minutes, and seconds, and press the function key in each case to enter the number you want. When you get to the AM or PM field, just press A or P and Windows Mobile will fill in the rest.
• Press the Done button to accept all your entries, and press the Home key to return to the Today screen.

Congratulations! Your smartphone now displays the correct date and time. Want to learn more? Here’s how you can use your smartphone to set an alarm or an appointment reminder or choose alarm sounds.